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Enantiodromia

The Sinister Abyssal Nexion

Introduction - The Seven Fold Way and Traditional Nexions in Context1 The Abyss2 The Methods and Tradition of The Seven Fold Way3 Individuality and The Abyss

4 Notes On The Transition Between Internal Adept and The Abyss5 The Rite of The Abyss

Introduction

The Seven Fold Way and Traditional Nexions in Context

This work brings together a few brief articles and notes, written by me, concerning aparticular part of The Seven Fold Way - the Sinister Abyssal Nexion, and thetransition from Internal Adept to Master/LadyMaster.

The following of the Seven Fold Way by individuals - from Neophyte to Internal Adept,and beyond and as described in texts such as The Complete Guide to the Seven-FoldWay(v 2.01, dated 121 yf) -- was the traditional method used by the initiatory nexionsof the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) in order to move toward one of our esoteric aims,that of producing a new type of human being, a type prefigured in ourMasters/LadyMasters and a type collectively known by the term Homo Galacticus.

This traditional method has been, until recently, the one chosen by the majority ofthose individuals recruited into the ONA and by those who, inspired by the ONA, haveopted to work on their own in pursuit of both their own esoteric advancement and inpursuit of the aims, objectives, and goals, of the ONA.

However, the ONA is now far more than traditional initiatory nexions following theSeven Fold Way, evolving as it has to become a Kollective of Tribes, Dreccs, Niners,Sinister-Empaths, Balobians, and others.

on Long - Enantiodromia: Sinister Abyssal Nexion

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Thus the Seven Fold Way - with its Grade Rituals, tasks, challenges, Insight Roles, itssorcery (External, Internal and Aeonic) and its structured Occult ceremonies - is nowa personal choice, one practical method among many. A choice suited to thoseindividuals whose personal character, whose psyche, resonates with its mythos, itsmethods, its Occult mystique, and its slow cultivation of wisdom. In fact, the majorityof those now associated with the ONA and/or inspired by it, choose methods other

than the Seven Fold Way.

Yet this traditional way remains both valid and important. For it could be said that itforms the Aeonic stable core of the ONA, a central point of unchanging reference: anancestral tradition in the living expansive Kulture that now encompasses Tribes,Dreccs, Niners, Sinister-Empaths, Balobians, independent nexions, and many others.

In my own case, my life has been considered by some to be a practical manifestationof The Seven Fold Way.

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The Abyss

The Sinister Abyssal Nexion is the esoteric term for what is more commonly(exoterically) known as The Abyss. In the Seven Fold Way of the Order of Nine Angles(ONA), The Abyss is described as separating the fourth and the fifth spheres of theTree of Wyrd (ToW) - that is, separating the Grade of Internal Adept from the Grade ofMaster/LadyMaster.

Furthermore, the Abyss represents the place(s) where the causal merges into theacausal, and thus where the causal is or can be "transcended", so the individual can,if prepared, enter the realm of acausality and become familiar - sansa self - withacausal entities. Thus, The Abyss is a nexion to the acausal;a nexus of temporal,a-temporal, and spatial and a-spatial, dimensions.


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Entering The Abyss (aka Passing Through The Abyss) is one of the terms used for theGrade Ritual that marks the emergence of a new Master/LadyMaster. This GradeRitual is an enantiodromia - that is, a type of confrontational contest whereby whathas been separated becomes bound together again [united] enabling the genesis of anew type of being. [1]

As an old alchemical MS stated: " The secret [of the Abyss] is the simple unity of two

common things. This unity is greater than but built upon the double-pelican... Here isthe living water, Azoth..."

What has been separated - into apparent opposites - is the sinister and the numinous,and the necessary preparation for Entering The Abyss (as briefly mentioned in TheMethods and Tradition of The Seven Fold Way, below) involves the Internal Adept,over a period of several years (around three years is the expected and necessarynorm), living in an empathic and numinous way and thus learning from such a living.

This living is not, however, an extended Insight Role, but instead a complete anddeliberate re-orientation of the consciousness, emotions, psyche, and way of life of theindividual, and is often made manifest in a necessary practical manner by the aspirantMaster/LadyMaster becoming, for example, an artisan (and thus learning anappropriate craft), or working in a caring profession, or pursuing artistic/musical/cultural pursuits consistent with such empathic and numinous living.

This living is not an Insight Role because Insight Roles are specific and a personalchoice. Here, there is no personal choice of type of living (in terms of decidingsomething opposite to one's personal character) and no specific containingrestraining role. There is only a flowing of numinosity through the individual,grounded by some practical means, such as being an artisan.

This numinous living is obviously in stark contrast - and seemingly opposed - to thepreviously experienced sinister aspects of someone following the Seven Fold Way, andit is for the individual to resolve in their own manner in their own causal Timewhatever conflicts - personal, moral, psychic or otherwise - that may arise. Aresolution that leads - if the individual decides to continue and after a duration ofcausal years - to a natural integration, the necessary alchemical synthesis; theindividual then having the experience, and the esoteric empathy, to know when such asynthesis of sinister and numinous has occurred.

There then follows a taking of The Oath of The Abyss and thence the Grade Ritual -the Rite of The Abyss - where the annihilation of both sinister and numinous, and ofthe new amalgam formed from their synthesis, occurs.

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[1] According to Myatt in his essay The Abstraction of Change as Opposites andDialectic, enantiodromia is a transliteration of the compound Greek word and which word first occurs in Lives of Eminent PhilosophersbyDiogenes Lartius where Diogenes, apparently paraphrasing Heraclitus, wrote:

(ix. 9)

Myatt translates this as:

" All by genesis is appropriately apportioned [separated into portions] withbeings bound together again by enantiodromia."

As noted by Myatt, Carl Jung used the term enantiodromia to describe the emergenceof a trait of personal character to offset another trait and which emergence restores anecessary psychological balance within the individual.

Given that the word enantiodromia - as used in the quoted phrase by Diogenes (andthus as possibly used by Heraclitus) - perfectly describes the living alchemicalprocess that occurs before and during the Grade Ritual of The Abyss, we have nowappropriated it in preference to older alchemical terms hitherto used.

Notes Concerning Individuality and The Abyss

Exile Song (A Painting by Richard Moult)


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One of the more important aspects of both the preparation for The Abyss and of theemergence of a new Master/LadyMaster following a successful Passing of The Abyss,is the supra-personal perspective attained. That is, notions of personal Destiny give

way to an understanding of Wyrd and a knowing of the impermanent illusory natureof the self, with causal individuality placed into a Cosmic perspective by anexperience of the acausal sansabstractions, words, language.

There is thus the beginnings of genuine wisdom, manifest on one level in an Aeonicunderstanding and thus of why the next Aeon is one where human beings return, inan evolved way, to their natural tribal (that is, connected and cultured) nature.

As the Rite of Internal Adept sheds and goes beyond mundane ego to symbolicallyproduce an 'individuated' self - a self made manifest in the months/years followingthat Rite and grounded in the pursuit of the personal Destiny so revealed - so thepreparations for and the Rite of the Abyss itself annihilates this self, this Destiny, byimmersing the individual in the living water, Azoth, from whence theMaster/LadyMaster emerges.

In the practical sense, this transformation means that the Master/LadyMaster shedsall pretence about esoteric matters - to themselves and others - while melding abeing-human (for they are still mortal, fallible, prone to mistakes) with an aeonic-consciousness: a placing of themselves into the Cosmic perspective such that anintimation of their mortal death, an awareness of the Immortality that awaits in theacausal, is an imminent continuing fact of their living. Thus are they joyfully fearless,liberated as they are from both the inertia of mundane-ego and of their previousindividuated-self: a true master/mistress of the acausal energies presenced as Life onthis one planet, their temporary causal home. One exile, waiting, yearning, planning,to leave.

An individual can obtain an intimation of this transformation, this consciousness, bythem undertaking, for three days only, the Camlad Rite of The Abyss [see below, TheRite of The Abyss] - a three-day working that all candidates for Master/LadyMastershould undertake as part of their necessary preparation, some six months to a yearbefore they intend to proceed into The Abyss.

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The Methods and Tradition of The Seven Fold Way


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Introduction - The Methods

The Seven Fold Way of the traditional nexions of the ONA is a difficult and life-longpersonal commitment, and involves three basic methods: (1) practical experience,both esoteric and exoteric; (2) a learning from that experience; and (3) a progression

toward a certain specific personal goal.

1. This means the individual acquires practical experience of both of theOccult/TheDarkArts [External, Internal and Aeonic sorcery] and of doing sinister(amoral and exeatic) deeds in the real world.

2. This means that the individual learns from their errors, their mistakes, and theirsuccess - a learning requiring self-honesty, interior reflexion, and a rationalawareness of themselves into relation to their life-long quest: that is, in relation to thegoal.

3. This means that (1) and (2) occur again and again until the long-term goal isreached - a process traditionally represented by the seven stages of the Tree of Wyrd,involving the progress from Neophyte to Magus/Mousa. The actual aim is to progresstoward, into, and beyond, The Abyss: which rencounter is: (a) exoterically, the genesisof the new type of human being which it is one of the aims of the ONA to facilitate, asprelude to our New Aeon and as a manifestation, a presencing, of that new Aeon; and(b) esoterically, the genesis of individual wisdom and a prelude to a possible transitiontoward the next and final stage, that of Immortal in the realms of the acausal.

These methods are personal, direct, individual. They require that the individual takeresponsibility for themselves; is not bound by any restrictions or any morality, andlearns not from books or texts or from someone else but rather by practicalexperience extending over a period of several decades.

The Tradition

Each of these stages is associated with specific tasks, which are reasonablywell-documented up to Internal Adept - for example, in freely available ONA texts

such as The Complete Guide to the Seven-Fold Way(v 2.01, dated 121 yf) . Thesetexts enable anyone to learn and experience for themselves, at their own pace.

As has been mentioned elsewhere, to reach the stage on Internal Adept takes at leastfive years of effort and experience, with that stage lasting from five to eleven, ormore, years. Thus, it takes a minimum of ten years before an individual of ourtradition is ready to begin the necessary preparations to attempt The Abyss, duringwhich years they must have spent six months in the wilderness (to develope thefaculty of Dark Empathy); gained proficiency in Esoteric Chant (and thus been acantor in an esoteric musical group); mastered the advanced form of The Star Game


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(and so developed the basics of Acausal Thinking); have undertaken The Ceremony ofRecalling with opfer ending; undertaken several challenging Insight Roles eachlasting a year or more; organized and run an esoteric group (a nexion) thus gainingpractical experience in External, Internal, and Aeonic Sorcery; and so on.

The necessary preparations for an Internal Adept to attempt The Abyss take at leastanother five years (more usually ten years), making it at least fifteen years (more

usually twenty) before an individual of our tradition is proficient, experienced,learned, mature, skilled, cultured, enough to attempt The Abyss.

These necessary preparations involve the Internal Adept in, over a period of someyears, experiencing, and learning from, the numinous - as opposed to the previouslyexperienced sinister - aspects of themselves and of Life; then developing thisnuminous and empathic aspect of themselves, then fully integrating this aspect withits opposite, to finally dissolve (then go beyond) both. Furthermore, this process is nota series of given, specific, Insight Roles, but instead a re-orientation of consciousness,emotions, and psyche, followed by the years-long living of the life of the newindividual that results, followed - when the causal Time be right - by the deliberate,conscious, unification of this with its opposite, followed by a years-long living of thelife of the new individual that results, followed by the annihilation of both; anannihilation which is the essence of The Abyss.

Obviously, such preparations are both difficult and dangerous, for the individual, andmost individuals will fail, usually for one of the following reasons: (1) because thenuminous aspect draws them permanently away from their esoteric quest; (2)because they cannot fully embrace the numinous since they cannot overcome thecausal illusion of the self, and thus cannot overcome their egotism, their arrogance,their pride, their sense of personal Destiny, their addiction to the sinister; (3) becausethey cannot integrate these apparently conflicting opposites of numinous and sinister;(4) because even if they succeed in the necessary alchemical melding of seemingopposites (Sol/Luna; Lightning/Sun; Light/Dark), they fail to annihilate(transmute/transform) the amalgam that results and so fail to give birth to a newspecimen of Homo Galacticus.

The Tradition of Esoteric Learning

For millennia, according to aural tradition, esoteric knowledge - the methods, themeans, required for an individual to acquire wisdom - The Philosophers Stone (akathe stage of Immortal) - has been learnt from a few reclusive Adepts, with thisknowledge being concerned with three traditional things: (1) the slow process of aninternal, alchemical, decades-long change in the individual as a result of directesoteric and exoteric personal experience and the learning from that experience - thenuminous authority of pathei-mathos; (2) a certain and limited personal guidance -from one of those more experienced in such matters - on a direct individual basis(person to person), if such advice be sought; and (3) the cultivation of the virtue of, manifest as this is in a noble, cultured, a learned, personal character.


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These three things are, for instance, manifest in the Inner ONA, which basically isakin to an extended family, consisting as it does of individuals, known to each otherpersonally, from traditional nexions, of the Grade of Internal Adept and above, whopossess the faculty of esoteric empathy and certain other personal qualities; who offerguidance on a personal basis to one or more individuals following The Seven FoldWay, and who have the knowledge to prepare individuals for the ordeals of The Abyss.

Thus, there was for millennia and still is in traditional nexions, an understanding thatknowledge was mostly to be acquired aurally, from someone of experience andlearning; although some knowledge could be acquired by means of patient, scholarly,and personal research. There was also an understanding that genuine wisdom takes acertain duration - decades - of causal Time to be attained, and cannot be hurried andoften requires a reclusive personal existence. There was also an understanding of theneed to develope a noble, cultured, and learned, personal character.

Thus was there also the placing of the Adept in supra-personal context - in theperspective of Aeons, and of the Cosmos itself.

These qualities, this appreciation and understanding of esoteric wisdom, are whathave now been overlooked, forgotten, or scorned, by those who, lacking , havecome to rely upon the modern rapid means of communication that have beendeveloped.

Charlatans and the Internet

This new fangled Internet thingy is but a useful means of presenting our esotericinformation and a useful means of inciting, encouraging, others to use and apply bothour traditional and our new esoteric methods, on the off-chance some or a few ofthem may eventually succeed, thus increasing the number of Adepts in the world;thus giving rise (perhaps) to a few more specimens of Homo Galacticus, and thus(perhaps) by some others becoming Dreccs or Niners or forming themselves intoclans, hastening thus the downfall of the Old Aeon and its System and thence aidingthe emergence of those new ways of living appropriate to our New Aeon.

But the Internet also encourages fakes, charlatans, imposters. For instance, both the

nature of the Internet and the kollective, individual, non-hierarchical nature of theONA have made it possible, and easy, for someone (usually anonymously) to makeclaims for themselves, and boast about deeds allegedly done and what tasks theyhave undertaken. Sometimes these claims extend to belonging to - or to havingorganized - some group or nexion ofxnumber of ONA-inclined people forynumber ofyears, and thus of having xnumber of ONA associates.

For instance, someone may claim to have spent three (or even six) months in thewilderness, and/or claimed to have gained proficiency in Esoteric Chant (and thusbeen a cantor in an esoteric musical group), and/or claimed to have mastered the


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advanced form of The Star Game, and/or to have undertaken The Ceremony ofRecalling with opfer ending, and/or claimed to have undertaken a challenging InsightRole lasting a year, and so on. All of which activities are a necessary part of thetraining and experience of someone genuinely following The Seven Fold Way.

Furthermore, someone may create a 'back-story' - a cover - for themselves and set upsome ONA-supporting website or blog, and then spend some time 'praising' us and

our Way, only to later (as is often the way with infiltrators) try to cause schism and/ordoubt within those who have been duped by them.

But, as has been indicated many times, all such shenanigans while expected areAeonically irrelevant and are thus ignored. Such fakes, charlatans, imposters, andinfiltrators are also themselves irrelevant, despite what they may believe.

Why irrelevant? For three reasons: (1) because they - and all such shenanigans - byusing or being conveyed by the medium of the Internet (or even by printed books)cannot in any way affect the living ONA (including the Inner ONA) which exists andwhich thrives in the real world: in the pursuit of The Seven Fold Way by individualsand the guidance of those individuals by living Adepts; (2) because those duped bysuch people, by such things, are failures, lacking the potential - the inner Baeldraca -that mark the neophytes of our kind; (3) because our real and important work isAeonic - of centuries and more - and thus surpasses the life-time of everyone livingnow, and everyone of the next generation and the next.

Whatever happens - whatever people do or write by means of the Internet or say inconferences or have printed in books - our esoteric work continues, slowly, secretly,Aeonically, in the traditional way, with person recruiting, guiding, person, decadefollowing decade, and totally independent of such modern rapid means ofcommunication as have been developed, from printed books to the Internet.

All such modern means of communication may do is slightly hasten both the downfallof The System and the emergence of the New Aeon. But one or three decades sooner -out of the hundred or two hundred (or more) years required - is really nothing for usto get excited about.

Our real wisdom, the essence of our esotericism, lies in our knowledge of ourselves asbut one nexion, suspended between causal and acausal Time - one means to presence

one more Aeon, one possibility to move toward a new acausal life.

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Some Notes On The Transition Between Internal Adept and The Abyss

The transition between Internal Adept and the next stage that of Master/Lady-Master (Mistress of Earth) is both long and arduous, requiring as it does amongother things (1) a personal and practical experiencing, and integration, of bothSinister and non-Sinister aspects of living, and of the Adepts own personality; (2)practical experience of Aeonic Magick and of all forms of The Star Game; (3)contributing, through fulfilling their personal Destiny, something unique, and redolentof the Sinister, to human knowledge, achievement, understanding and/or to thatpresencing which is beyond human words and which is often manifest in works ofgenuine artistic, and/or magickal, genius and originality. In summation, they will havepresenced the Sinister both within, and external, to themselves, and externally to asufficiency that casual effects are noticeable, as they will have both understood and toa certain extent have experienced, the acausal reality which lies behind the nexion ofour causal lives, and behind the causality of appearance and forms.

Then, after such preparation, they will become, gradually, suffused with an increasingyearning for that-which-is, and for Those-Who-Are, acausal, and it is this yearning, atfirst somewhat intangible but always powerful (in terms of their psyche and their ownlives), which propels and guides them toward The Abyss, and which provides themwith the desire to take that dangerous, and secret, Oath of The Abyss.

Furthermore, this yearning which becomes transmuted to, at first, a human-typedesire and love [for example, for one's sinister partner], and then to some-thingfounded on such human emotions but which is an evolution and a sinister

transformation of such things (and all the more powerful for being so), and it is such aliving-with this new evolutionary feeling, this dark Sinister almost supra-personaldesire redolent of and which manifests something of the acausal essence, that is oneof the reasons whereby a new Master or Lady Master is bound to the very acausaldarkness itself, both in their remaining causal years, and in the life in the acausalwhich can be attained after that.

For the Oath of The Abyss has practical, causal consequences which are bothmagickal, and personal, and it is these personal practical consequences and thedark dangerous nature of the magickal consequences that distinguish this genuineSinister Oath from the so-called other oaths of the abyss that some charlatans andsome imposters and some frauds have had the temerity to write about and makepronouncements about, and to lyingly declare that they have gone beyond the Abyssitself.

The genuine Oath of The Abyss is a solemn declaration, made in front of severalwitnesses of our sinister-folk, by which the Adept pledges themselves, for the rest oftheir causal life, to among other things Presence The Dark, to continue with andevolve The Dark Tradition, and to aid human and non-human evolution, with theimportant and necessary proviso that if at any time they renounce their Sinister aimsand goals, and The Dark Tradition itself, then their own life will be forfeit, with them


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then becoming an opfer who can and who will be sacrificed. In established Nexions(Sinister Temples of a sinister group) the current Grand Master, or Lady GrandMaster, appoints several Guardians, unknown to the Candidate, who themselves arepledged to undertake without warning if required this honourable duty of sacrificeshould such a duty be deemed or found to be necessary.

In addition, The Ceremony of The Oath of The Abyss invokes and presences withinand near-to the Candidate certain acausal entities, which and who are foreverwith, or near-to, the Candidate for those remaining causal years, however long orbrief, that will mark the rest of the causal life of the Candidate, and the Candidate cannever escape, in this causal realm, from these entities.

Thus, it can be seen that the Oath of The Abyss is not something that is to be enteredinto lightly, even though the rewards of a successful crossing of The Abyss, are greatindeed, and include the real possibility of that particular human entity creating forthemselves, or being rewarded with, an acausal existence beyond this mortal causalrealm.

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The Rite of The Abyss

The Rite of The Abyss exists in two forms, one dating from the formation of the ONAsome forty years ago, and the other, more traditional one, dating from the pre-ONACamlad Rounwytha association. Since the simple, modern, ONA Rite has already beendescribed, several decades ago, in another published MS [Naos], the older, moredangerous and more effective Camlad Rite will be given here. [1]

The traditional Rite is quite simple and begins at the first full moon following thebeginning of a propitious alchemical season - in the Isles of Britain this was

traditionally the first rising of Arcturus in the Autumn. The Rite, if successful,concludes on the night of the following full moon.

As with the Chthonic Form of the Nine Angles Rite, the Rite of The Abyss occurs in anisolated underground cavern where or near to where water flows, where thecandidate dwells alone for the whole lunar month, taking with them all that isrequired for the duration of the Rite. Ideally, the water should be suitable fordrinking. The only light is from candles (housed in a lantern) and the only food isbread and cheese. If the water in or flowing through or near to the cavern in not


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suitable for drinking, then supplies of water sufficient to last must also be brought.[Note: as with the Rite of Internal Adept, no means of communication with the outsideworld should be brought; no timepiece, mechanical or otherwise, is allowed; and nomodern means of reproducing music or other forms of entertainment.] The candidateshould arrange for one trusted member of their nexion - of the Grade of InternalAdept or above - to enter the cavern at the next full moon to return them to the worldof living mortals. [2]

The cavern should ideally possess one area level and sufficient enough for thecandidate to paint or mark upon it the septagonic sigil below.

The Rite simply involves the candidate once every day (or night) walking the abovepattern - starting at the point between Mars and Sun and ending at the point betweenVenus and Sun - while chanting the word ka-Os [Chaos] according to the notationbelow for at-Azoth (an increasing of Azoth). Given the skill the aspirant candidate willhave acquired in Esoteric Chant, they will know how to do this according to thatnotation. The candidate will also know how spoken and written words such asat-Azoth and ka-Os have a certain (acausal) significance ('meaning') and thussimilarity when chanted in such a manner.


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The rest of time the candidate should occupy themselves as their empathic awarenessintimates. [3] As mentioned, the Rite ends when their trusted comrade enters thecavern at the next full moon to return them to the world of living mortals.

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Notes:

[1] The Rite as given in Naosrequires a quartz tetrahedron. While three inch crystals- as mentioned in Naos - maywork, to ensure success (in this Rite as in others using aquartz tetrahedron), the crystal has to be a perfect tetrahedron (no bevelled edges)and free from blemish, external and internal - with a height of six inches or more.Such crystals are rare, and costly, and often have to be custom made by someoneskilled in cutting gemstones.

In addition, although it is not stated in Naos, the chanting of the word 'Chaos' [ka-Os]in the ONA Rite of Entering The Abyss is according to the notation of the Atazothchant above. Given the skill the aspirant candidate will have acquired in EsotericChant, they will know how to do this according to that notation.

[2] There are aural accounts - to be believed or not - of candidates being foundinsane, or dead, or missing.


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[3] It should be noted that a version of this Rite - lasting but three days - should beundertaken by the candidate as preparation some six months to a year before theyintend to proceed into The Abyss.

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